The 67-mile Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains offers numerous adventures, including this 9.8-mile section through ...

They come from different states, different careers and different chapters of life. But four hikers resting at Angel’s Rest ...

Bears are active this time of year as they look for food and visitors should use “extreme caution.” Visitors were chased or ...

This Pennsylvania state park combines two lakes with Blue Ridge mountain views and a range of hiking trails for a fun day in ...

National parks are the perfect destinations for outdoors lovers who want to get some exercise and fresh air, but which one ...

Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones hiding in plain sight, and Damascus, Virginia is proof that you don’t need to ...

The Walnut Mountain Shelter, built in 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, was transported from over the border in Del ...

A hiker was injured falling from the last ladder leading up to Grandfather Mountain’s McRae Peak March 22. Due to the severity of the injury, the Linville-Central Rescue Squad and North Carolina ...

You’ve got your backpack, your hiking boots and your bear spray. You’re poised at the trailhead — or are you? Shouldn’t there be a sign? Is that narrow footpath, leading straight uphill through the ...

The longest, continuous, marked, foot-only trail in the world spans about 90 miles in Berkshire County. The Appalachian Trail spans 2,198 miles, giving hikers the serenity and unknown of what nature ...

A view of OPUS Hut in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado - Renato Maero/Google There's something timeless, nostalgic, and heartwarming about a lodge nestled amid stunning nature. Whether embraced by ...

Author Steve Carpenter with his sister-in-law, Gayle Alderfer Fisher, on the AT along the Blue Ridge Parkway. A Harrisonburg man has released a book that takes readers to the Appalachian Trail where ...